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identified as vestigial simply had an unrecognized function. Vestigial organs are sometimes called rudimentary organs. Many human characteristics are also...51 KB (6,390 words) - 20:14, 4 August 2024
Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral...32 KB (3,876 words) - 05:01, 7 May 2024
and, if present, below the hock on the hind leg. It is believed to be a vestigial toe, and along with the ergot form the three toes of some other extinct...5 KB (522 words) - 04:17, 19 December 2023
Appendix (anatomy) (category Vestigial organs)from Latin and means "worm-shaped". The appendix was once considered a vestigial organ, but this view has changed since the early 2000s. Research suggests...29 KB (3,315 words) - 22:24, 16 July 2024
The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is a flight stabilizing feature developed by Boeing that became notorious for its role in two...94 KB (10,064 words) - 04:18, 31 July 2024
Pygopodidae (section Shared gecko characteristics)external characteristics can be used to distinguish legless lizards (including the hooded scaly-foot) from snakes: Flap-footed lizards have vestigial hind...7 KB (674 words) - 20:39, 8 May 2024
Narwhal (section Vestigial teeth)associated with sexual selection. The narwhal has a single pair of small vestigial teeth that reside in open tooth sockets in the upper jaw. These teeth...86 KB (8,850 words) - 13:51, 6 August 2024
Nictitating membrane (section Vestigiality)and sharks have full nictitating membranes; in many mammals, a small, vestigial portion of the nictitating membrane remains in the corner of the eye....8 KB (975 words) - 11:45, 25 June 2024- Darwin's tubercle (category Vestigial organs)The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, as evidence of a vestigial feature indicating common ancestry among primates which have pointy ears...7 KB (698 words) - 22:26, 28 July 2024
of ancestral chromosomes left distinctive remnants of telomeres, and a vestigial centromere. As other non-human extant hominidae have 48 chromosomes it...103 KB (5,184 words) - 17:34, 4 August 2024
detected between the soleus and gastrocnemius aponeuroses. The soleus is vestigial in the horse. The gastrocnemius muscle is superficial to (closer to the...10 KB (1,164 words) - 07:19, 23 June 2024
shape across the mammal groups. The third molar of humans is sometimes vestigial. In humans, the molar teeth have either four or five cusps. Adult humans...18 KB (1,919 words) - 00:16, 29 April 2024
Ungulate (section Characteristics); Richard, Pierre R.; Orr, Jack R.; Black, Sandie R.; et al. (2012). "Vestigial tooth anatomy and tusk nomenclature for Monodon monoceros". The Anatomical...59 KB (5,867 words) - 20:57, 26 July 2024- Nyquist filter (section Vestigial Side Band (VSB))RF) without causing extensive delay problems. Such a filter is known as vestigial side band filter (VSB). In System B the VF bandwidth is 5 MHz. Without...4 KB (536 words) - 04:07, 8 April 2023
Felidae (section Characteristics)when not erect and backward during urination. The baculum is small or vestigial, and shorter than in the Canidae. Most felids have penile spines that...49 KB (3,902 words) - 21:43, 28 July 2024
generation European Ford Escort (also a hatchback), the third box may be vestigial. And three-box styling does not need to be boxy: Car Design News calls...9 KB (881 words) - 16:59, 12 April 2024
obligatory for them, a manifestation of lumbar curvature might serve as a vestigial remnant of proceptivity-/receptivity-communicative signal between men...12 KB (1,378 words) - 12:47, 10 June 2024- Leviathan race. The physical, racial and species-specific cultural characteristics, as well as underlying mythological/sociological similarities and differences...118 KB (18,005 words) - 03:18, 12 June 2024
mouth. For humans and most primates, the philtrum survives only as a vestigial medial depression between the nose and upper lip. The human philtrum,...9 KB (944 words) - 18:48, 25 April 2024
Balaenicipitidae (section Common characteristics)furrow in the upper beak below the nasal openings An ossified septum Vestigial or absent expansor secundariorum muscle "Fossilworks: Balaenicipitidae"...2 KB (161 words) - 12:44, 3 March 2024
- serpents, Mosasauria, and some Sauria; more or less vestigial in some lizards; and either absent or vestigial in the Pterosauria and Dinosauria. In crawling
- may be active, while the other, like the pineal eye in man, may be only vestigial. By such an hypothesis no physical laws are violated; neither is it necessary
- life-cycle defines oestrids as obligate parasites. The adults have only vestigial mouthparts remaining from this adaptation, so they cannot feed. Larvae